Does job success depend on data rather than your CV? (BBC)

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By Matthew Wall
Business reporter, BBC News

The bald truth is that most companies are pretty bad at recruitment.

Nearly half of new recruits turn out to be duds within 18 months, according to one study, while two-thirds of hiring managers admit they've often chosen the wrong people.

And the main reason for failure is not because applicants didn't have the requisite skills, but because their personalities clashed with the company's culture.

So these days employers are resorting to big data analytics and other new methods to help make the fraught process of hiring and firing more scientific and effective.

For job hunters, this means success is now as much to do with your online data trail as your finely crafted CV.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29343425




Well. most of them surely don't know how to write good job ads.

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1. I'm glad I am retiring in 20 months.

I don't think today's hiring methods would work for a person like me. I was lucky a person thought I would make a good employee. I doubt a robot would pick me.

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2. I can relate to that

Every time I went to a job interview, my wife would tell me "tone it down, you don't want them to think you're a smartass". But somehow I never did.

A lot of times, I was rejected, but once or twice, my skill set matched so well with what they were looking for that they had no choice but to overlook my sometimes flippant personality.

Now, they'd have the company shrink sitting in on the interview and he'd shit can me as soon as I opened my mouth.